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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345116303321

Autore

Alon Yoav <1967->

Titolo

The making of Jordan [[electronic resource] ] : tribes, colonialism and the modern state / / Yoav Alon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : I. B. Tauris, 2007

ISBN

1-282-64256-1

0-85771-456-2

600-00-0938-0

1-4356-0374-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Library of modern Middle East studies ; ; v. 61

Disciplina

956.9504

Soggetti

Nation-building - Jordan - History

Jordan Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Maps; Introduction: The Study of State, Tribe and Colonial Rule in Jordan; 1. Between Two Empires: Transjordan on the Eve of Abdullah's Arrival; 2. 'Bedu Amir' or Constitutional Monarch? The Struggle for the Nature of the Emirate, 1921-1924; 3. The Making of a Colonial State 1924-1930; 4. Colonialism as Fine Art: Glubb Pasha and the Desert Trbes, 1928-1936; 5. State Consolidation and Tribal Participation, 1930-1946; Conclusion: Towards an Appraisal of the Mandate's Legacy in Jordan; Glossary: Tribes and Shaykhs; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

At the beginning of the 20th Century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes. By the time of its independence in 1946, it had the most firmly embedded state structures in the Arab world. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Yoav Alon examines how the disparate clan networks of Jordan were integrated into the Hashemite monarchy, with the help of the British colonial administrators. Looking at the growth of key state institutions from a grassroots perspective, Alon shows how they co-opted the structures of tribal society, and produced a distinctive hybrid betwee